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A straw-man proposal is a brainstormed simple draft proposal intended to generate discussion of its disadvantages and to provoke the generation of new and better proposals. The term is considered American business jargon, but it's also encountered in engineering office culture. Sometimes "straw dog" is used instead as form of gender-neutral language. Often, a straw man document will be prepared by one or two people prior to kicking off a larger project. In this way, the team can jump start their discussions with a document that is likely to contain many, but not all the key aspects to be discussed. As the document is revised, it may be given other edition names such as the more solid-sounding "stone-man", "iron-man", and so on. ==Origins== The expression was already in use in the United States Department of Defense circa 1975 in their Large Organization Model Building paradigm (LOMB) and was apparently in use with this meaning (initial proposal) in the United States Air Force before that. The succession of names comes from the requirements document for the programming language Ada. In the High Order Language Working Group (HOLWG) the process to define Ada generated requirements documents sporting different names, representing the various stages of development of the Ada language,〔http://archive.adaic.com/pol-hist/history/holwg-93/8.htm#milestones〕 as described in 1993 by Col William Whitaker in an article ''ACM SIGPLAN Notices''.〔"Ada - The Project, The DoD High Order Language Working Group", ''ACM SIGPLAN Notices'' Vol. 28, No. 3, March 1993〕 They are: *STRAWMAN issued in April 1975〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=DoD - Strawman Requirements - April 1975 )〕 *WOODENMAN issued in August 1975〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=DoD - Woodenman Requirements - August 1975 - David A. Fisher )〕 *TINMAN issued in January 1976〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=DoD - Tinman Requirements - January 1976 - David A. Fisher )〕 *IRONMAN issued in January 1977〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=DoD - Ironman Requirements - January 1977, revised July 1977 )〕 (revised in July 1977) *SANDMAN not published but circulated in January 1978 *STEELMAN issued in June 1978〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=DoD - Steelman Requirements - June 1978 - David A. Fisher )〕 *PEBBLEMAN issued in July 1978 *PEBBLEMAN Revised and issued in January 1979 *STONEMAN issued in February 1980〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Introduction to STONEMAN On-Line )〕 Other references include "The Ada Environment", LTC Rodney A. Edge, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC 20307, Thomas A. Marciniak, M.D., National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20205 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Straw man proposal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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